The 180TB storage array, like many of our other hard drive-related stories, comes from our friends at Backblaze. Backblaze is a cloud-based backup company that provides unlimited storage for a fixed ...

I've used one Drobo or another since the first device came out in 2007. I bought the very first generation Drobo. It was slow, but I found the ease of use and reliability a big win. When the much ...

Stevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...

The ThunderBay 4 will add terabytes of storage to your Mac. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you want the biggest and highest-capacity external hard drive, Cyber Monday is the time to buy. I ...

Today I had a vendor tell me that I couldn't replace an 80 pin scsi drive in a raid array with a same capacity or larger drive with a different spindle speed.<BR><BR>I'm trying to figure out if this ...

Secondary hard drives are commonly added to a computer to increase the data storage capacity, but they can also be used to improve system performance. Hard drives are the slowest part of the computer ...

About two months ago, a drive in my array died. I replaced it and told the array to rebuild. However, I'm still getting rebuild warnings from the 3Ware Disk Manager. Is the new drive I put in bad or ...

Though not as fast in our tests as Seagate’s IronWolf Pro, the SkyHawk is still a very fast hard drive, tuned for surveillance purposes. Seagate says it’s optimized for use in NVRs. The AI version is ...

I will never fault someone for asking a tech question that feels “basic,” because we all had to get our start somewhere. Few of us popped out of the womb knowing how to access a network share in ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers. A hard drive consists of spinning platters that store digital information read by fast-moving read/write ...

An external hard drive is a great way to add massive storage to any system. The humble hard drive has been at the heart of modern PCs for decades, and though SSDs have taken the performance crown, ...